A collection of 215 posts
What realists like Emma Ashford deride as America’s “reactionary defence of the status quo” is in fact a prudent effort to preserve a world order of unparalleled value.
The real hoax is the one being peddled by the Trump administration right now.
If the stewards of American power wish to act effectively and preserve the liberal order in this dangerous new era, they will have to act with the self-confidence of the just man armed.
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
The questions at the centre of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial are still contested today.
Sam Tanenhaus’s new biography of William F. Buckley provides a rich and nuanced portrait of one of the most consequential public intellectuals in modern American conservative politics.
How journalism exchanged the duty to inform for an ethic of customer satisfaction.
Operations Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer have been successful military operations, but a great deal of uncertainty remains.
The post-11 September wars set in motion political forces that constrained and undermined American power at the moment it was needed most.
Twenty years after his death, what Hunter S. Thompson’s legacy—or lack of it—tells us about literature and manhood in our current moment.
Seduction and submission in the work of the Marquis de Sade.
We devote a lot of resources to trying to equalise student outcomes, but under ideal learning conditions, individual differences in student achievement widen.
The post-Cold War democratic wave has receded and the free world now appears to be learning from authoritarian regimes instead of the other way around.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.